Starting this course, it had been tough finding an internship in the beginning. As someone with barely any experience in the design field, I feel like it can be challenging to find something that requires more skill and/or talent. Although I tried to apply to some internships on LinkedIn, I didn’t get lucky even after one interview with an internship that didn’t really fall into the design field. Even after the spring semester started, I still wasn’t able to find any internship but thanks to Prof. Nicolaou, she helped me land on an internship with her continuous follow-ups and support.
As the course weeks passed, I landed in a non-profit organization that focuses on helping people with donations from charity malls. Basically, they are a fundraising platform for new generations of donors and it gives people chances to dream big and win prizes. Non-profits can tend to spend less time and money to raise funds, rather focus on serving the communities’ needs. As a result, charities would focus on their world-changing work; they cover marketing like social media ads, content like videos with celebs, and technology like websites or UX/UI. This non-profit organization aims to raise up to 40 times more than auctions/galas, thus, in general would be more time efficient.
